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Competition (Robert Verdon)

Verity La November 23, 2013 Heightened Talk

sad regions stretch like backyards visited long ago like the tongue encountering an icicle like Jacob in Blake’s painting  they loll under the charcoal moon in the hush of the …

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      • Through the Looking Glass
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      • Heightened Talk
      • Spoken Word
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      • Clozapine Clinic — The Frater Project
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